Haven't had it running long enough yet to fully judge the battery life.

One thing I have noticed performance wise, however, is that Safari seems quite a bit speedier.

Also, for me at least, Siri is even more accurate. I must be one of the lucky ones with a good accent for Siri as its always been pretty good for me to the extent that I very rarely type anything on the iPhone any more.

This whole post, like my others, was dictated. The only error was that it said charge instead of judge. Even then, the correct word came up on the suggestions.

I love how I can launch apps through Siri now as well.

From my standpoint, with the performance & no major issues uncovered, I definitely recommend an upgrade for the 4S.

Performance on my 64GB iPhone 4S seems to be at least as good as 5.1.1. I did an "Upgrade" instead of "Restore" by the way. I won't know about battery life for a few more days until I have used it for a while.

I noticed Airplay seems to play quicker on my Audyssey airplay speaker which is nice. Before I had to wait at least 10-15 seconds before the music played.

You must remember that you can't get an accurate battery gauge if you are restoring from a backup. If you had any OS problems or bugs that transferred over from 5.1.1, then it is tough to judge. Could we all clarify if we did CLEAN INSTALLS and Setup as NEW OR did CLEAN INSTALLS and Restored from backup. There is a BIG difference.

At the least, it performs as well as iOS5 did on my 64GB 4s...I haven't run into any issues yet, other than the App Store being buggy from time to time. Safari noticeably runs quicker on iOS6 as opposed to iOS5 for me; that's the biggest performance change I've noticed so far.

I have found that Siri works a lot better, and not just with the new features. Haven't really tested the battery life yet because my iPhone is plugged into a dock while i am at work so I can listen to my music. Safari and just everything in general seems speedier to me.

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